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Virtual Avebury: exploring sense of place in a virtual archaeology simulation
(2020-07-08)
Falconer, Liz
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Burden, David
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Cleal, Rosamund
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Hoyte, Ralph
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Phelps, Phillip
This paper describes and discusses creating and evaluating a virtual reality simulation of Avebury Stone Circle and Henge complex as it might have appeared and sounded circa 2300 BCE. Avebury is a Neolithic heritage site in the UK which is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and associated sites UNESCO World Heritage Site. The overall aim of the project was to better understand the sense of place and presence that visitors can experience in virtual simulations of heritage sites. We investigated how virtual spaces might become experienced as places by visitors through their exploration, active participation, sensory stimulation and communication with other visitors in the simulation. More than 1200 members of the public experienced the simulation, both at Avebury itself and at three public exhibitions. The specific objectives of the project were to explore if and how the believability of a simulation was associated with feeling a sense of place in the virtual landscape, and if some personal characteristics, viz. age, disability, sex, immersive tendency, familiarity with IT and frequency of playing computer games, were associated with levels of enjoyment in, and learning from, the simulation. We analysed the data from a detailed questionnaire completed by 388 of the 702 visitors to Avebury from June to September 2018 who experienced the simulation, supported by observational data from all participants at all events. We found that believability was associated with a sense of place in the simulation, i.e. that the more believable the simulation appeared, the greater the sense of place experienced by the participants. We also found that personal characteristics had very little influence upon visitor reactions to the simulation, suggesting that such simulations might have wide appeal for heritage and museum visitors, regardless of age, gender or familiarity with technology.HighlightsMore than 1200 members of the public experienced a 3D, fully immersive simulation of Avebury Henge, Wiltshire, UK over a nine-month period.We found patterns of use and familiarity with information technology (IT), and using mobile technologies for gaming, that did not follow age and gender stereotypes.We found little correlation between age, gender and IT familiarity with reactions to Virtual Avebury, suggesting that such simulations might have wide appeal for heritage site visitors.
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Tangible and Intangible Heritage: Charles Paget Wade and the Creation of Snowshill Manor as a Magical Space
(2022-03-01)
Huxtable, Sally-Anne
How, as heritage professionals, historians, and curators might we approach the hidden, the occluded, the ineffable, the intangible, and the forgotten? How can we use those ideas, narratives, and experiences to unlock the objects, collections, spaces, buildings, gardens, parklands, and landscapes we care for, and thereby create new means by which individuals and communities can connect with them in ways that go beyond the visual? How can we offer encounters that go beyond what Laurajane Smith has called “Authorised Heritage Discourse” (AHD)? This discourse, according to Smith, not only privileges the aesthetic and scientific value of heritage while masking the important cultural and political work that the heritage process does, but also overlooks its less tangible and more ephemeral aspects. One heritage property that pays attention to the less obvious aspects of heritage is Snowshill Manor in Gloucestershire, in the care of the National Trust.
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Unsafe building: documenting heritage at risk through robotic and semi-autonomous survey
(2024-10-16)
Challis, Keith
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McLaughlin, Lynsey
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Pearce, Glen
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Wainwright, Angus
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Evison, Colin
The National Trust cares for many places where access to heritage is restricted, for safety or other reasons, limiting the opportunity for monitoring, recording and visitor engagement. The remains of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) testing facility, built between 1954 and 1962 at Orford Ness on the Suffolk coast of England, represent such a case. The AWRE structures are a Scheduled Monument and sit within a wider landscape of twentieth century defence heritage. The buildings have attained a mythical status in popular culture and attract substantial visitor interest. However, they are unsafe to enter, and their long-term conservation strategy is to allow their gradual decline to a point where significant evidence is lost, with their ultimate loss to coastal erosion anticipated. Recognising these challenges, our work has sought to develop and assess a prototype use of robotic and semi-autonomous survey technology for heritage at risk in challenging environments. A suite of complementary technologies, including Boston Dynamics quadruped robots, caged and conventional drones combining laser scanning and digital photogrammetry were used. This paper provides an account of practicalities, benefits and limitations of robotic and semi-autonomous survey for documenting heritage assets.
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HERITAGE CONNECTION - Scoping and Sounding the Field
(2025)
Butler, Carly W.
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Richardson, Miles
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Kirton, Maya
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Dommett, Tom
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Hogan, Shannon
This report documents the Heritage Connection: Scoping and Sounding the Field project, funded by the University of Derby’s Vice-Chancellor’s Partnership Award and carried out in collaboration with the National Trust. It explores the emerging concept of heritage connectedness – a person’s subjective sense of relationship with heritage – through a review of literature, roundtables and workshops with heritage professionals and a pilot study testing a heritage connection intervention. The overall aims were to advance theoretical and practical understanding of heritage connectedness, and develop an agenda for research, practice and policy
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